Word: hussein
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...Died. Hussein Ala, 81, Court Minister of Iran since 1957, one of the Shah's oldest and ablest advisers, a reform-minded, pro-West politician who won worldwide notice in March 1946 when he stood before the U.N. Security Council and called attention to the illegal Russian occupation of Iran's Azerbaijan Province, raised such a storm that the Reds withdrew in the face of world opinion; of pneumonia; in Teheran...
...music by Violinist Mischa Elman, 73, and by the Parisian Swingle Singers, who perform their Bach with a modern beat. Said Johnson in an accolade to Eshkol: "We are very much alike. We are both farmers." Two months ago he had received an Arab potentate, Jordan's King Hussein. Now came a non-Arab Moslem, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his Empress Farah Diba, to whom Johnson gave cowboy suits for their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter...
...bury the news. The Arab nations, well aware that the waters will sustain a more populous, prosperous Israel, threatened war if the project ever went through.* Then last January, at a summit meeting of 13 Arab leaders in Cairo, Egypt's President Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein persuaded their colleagues to drop the war talk and concentrate instead on a scheme that would, in effect, leave Israel high and dry. "We are not going to attack Israel," says Nasser. "We are going to build our own projects to utilize the Jordan headwaters before they reach Israel...
Each day last week produced new surprises for the folks at New York City's big new fair. King Hussein dropped by to dedicate Jordan's pavilion; Princess Christina came down from Radcliffe to open Sweden's. Jacqueline Kennedy and Daughter Caroline, with the late President's sister, Mrs. Stephen Smith and her two young sons, made a tour of eleven fun spots, lunched at the members-only Terrace Club, where the children begged in vain for hot dogs or hamburgers, settled for roast beef...
Nothing daunted, Hussein danced on, with Miss Feldman and others. Finally, at 11:15, perhaps just a trifle early, the King left for his guest quarters at nearby Blair House...